A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press. Daily timeline of events in Iraq as collected from stories and dispatches in the French and Italian media: Le Monde (Paris), Il Corriere della Sera (Milan), La Repubblica (Rome), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut) and occasionally from El Mundo (Madrid).

Friday, September 02, 2005

Elderly await flights at Louis Armstrong Airport

"They ignored the order to evacuate."

Update Saturday 3 September: 12:03 p.m. Many Dying At Airport For Lack Of Medical CareAnother desperate situation is unfolding in New Orleans -- this time, at the city's international airport. Thousands of people are still in a medical triage center there, and many of them are dying because of a lack of medical care.